WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-8254 Analyzed

Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce: A security weakness

Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score 6.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce
Plugin slug
email-subscribers
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Oct 02, 2024
Weakness
CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

This CVE was published Oct 02, 2024 and is one of 20 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Technical description

The Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.34. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Primary and upstream sources